Cryptococcal meningitis

Posted By: Marge on 2006-03-13
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Subject: Cryptococcal meningitis

I cannot make out the last word of this sentence. The doctor has an accent and there is a lot of noise in the background. CSF showed a cryptococcal type of cough, 1:512. It sounds like he says cough but that does not make sense. Thanks.

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Cryptococcal meningitis - Marge
- Could be trough. nm - anon
  - could be, although trough not usually measured in a ratio (1:512) sm - flybye
- bet he's saying "cryptococcal titer of 1:512" nm - flybye
- There is also streptococcal toxic shock? sm - Txczech
- cryptococcal antigen?....nm - CM
  - Cryptococcal meningitis - marge
- streptococcal meningitis? nm - Txczech

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